"I never drop anything entirely. It's always still there in the background."

In today's episode, I have brought on my very own language teacher! Dafydd Morse is a Welsh-Maths-Baking-Everything tutor and learning enthusiast from Wales.

We'll chat about

You've been asking for a bilingual Welsh episode, and finally here it is!

I took the opportunity to ask Dafydd a few questions in Welsh in this episode. You will hear him reply in Welsh and conduct the conversation like that for a few minutes. I summarize in English afterwards. If you are not a Welsh learner, don't worry as we'll always switch back to English.

Here I always like to remember what the late Ron Gullekson from Language Surfer told me: "in a new language, I like to get uncomfortable as early as possible." So enjoy the challenge and enjoy the practice!

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Thank you to Popi for this episode introduction.

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Special Guest: Dafydd Morse.

Links:

• Daf's Instagram — Learn baking from the highlights! 🍞
• Dafydd Morse - YouTube
• The untranslatable word that connects Wales - BBC Travel
• Fluent Language Mastermind — My new mastermind is a growth programme for dedicated language learners - check it out and apply now!
• Learn Welsh online with Dafydd on italki
• Learn Welsh with this course for language dabblers

We've never had it so good, have we? Language instruction is easily available these days through apps, social media, and teaching platforms. And it's so affordable ...if not entirely free!

In today's podcast episode, we bring you a deep dive into that Boston Review article called "Who Pays for Cheap Language Instruction?"

We discuss:

"We have put up with “products” inspired less by linguistic justice than by game design.

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Links:

• Ending & honoring our volunteer Contributor program — A listener supplied this article to show that Duolingo no longer has volunteer course creators. Thanks!
• My Bonuses for Lindsay Williams' Online Teaching Starter Kit — Aspiring language teachers: Navigate the online teaching world in the best possible way with Lindsay's Online Teaching Starter Kit and click here to secure my Bonus Pack while you're at it!
• Duolingo Events — Make up your own mind about this one 😞(while they take 20%)

Elle Charisse is a language podcaster (she hosts Speaking Tongues), language lover, and foodie. She's a New York woman through and through!

We discuss

If you want to hear more episodes with a fantastic New York woman, check out my previous guest Ellen Jovin. Click here to see more about Ellen

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Special Guest: Elle Charisse.

Links:

• My Courses
• Arthur Avenue | Little Italy in the Bronx, New York
• DREI WETTER TAFT 1989 - YouTube — Wow, a woman of the world

Welcome to a special edition of the Fluent Show favourite top tools segment, and this time we're discussing the most useful online tools and tricks for language teachers.

If you're familiar with Top Tools, you might know we try to leave out the most obvious ones and go straight to the practical tools that you might never have heard of. But with this being a first special edition for teachers, allow us to introduce each tool in the context of its wider theory.

Want to cut straight to the top tools discussion? Go to timestamp 14:28

Listen to the show to find out which ones we chose as the three must-haves.

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• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• Clozemaster App Review: Build Your Skills After Duolingo by Fluent Language
• The Fluent Show: Top 5 Tips for Starting a Career as an Online Language Teacher
• The Fluent Show: Where and How to Start Teaching Online

In this podcast episode, you're going to meet two independent online teachers who decided to build their businesses in unique and interesting ways:

Kate teaches, coaches, and creates materials for English language learners, and she's a fellow podcaster. Karina organises online writing experiences for English Language teachers so they can share their personal stories with confidence.

Listen to this interview to learn more about

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Support the Fluent Show on Patreon to get access to extra interview questions and extended show notes.

Special Guests: Karina Thorne and Kate Fisher.

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• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• Share Your Story - Making Connections Across Languages with — --you need a previously purchased Women in Language 2021 ticket to view this video--
• Fluent Show Live 🔴🔈 Language Learning Podcast - Clubhouse — Join me live on Clubhouse for a bonus episode on 19 June
• Crack the Grammar Code — This course is open for enrolment 14-18 June 2021
• Podthon.com | A Virtual Speakers Roundtable for Podcasters — Curious about podcasting? Here for a diverse, inclusive, inspiring online event? Then you MUST join Podthon!

If you are solo learning a language and want to feel confident and fluent, and make language a part of your life, you may feel stuck at some points along the way

Language Coaching is a service that helps you make the most of your learning journey. It’s designed for people who are serious about their goals and committed to achieving them

In this episode, you're going to learn more about language coaching and what it can do for you.

Find out

Check out the links below for more podcast episodes that help you understand what language coaching is all about.

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Thank you to Marissa for this episode introduction.

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• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• Language Coaches: What They Are and How to Work With Them by Fluent Language
• Graphic: Mentoring, Coaching & Teaching compared
• My Language Coaching Page — Learn more about language coaching and how I work 1:1 with people
• Multilingual Marissa (@multilingualmarissa) • Instagram photos and videos
• Clozemaster App Review: Learn Language in Context

My guest for today's episode is somebody I met on a brand new app! No, it's not a dating app. It is the new social media app called Clubhouse.

There's a huge global audience of people on Clubhouse and you can join in, listen in and sometimes even speak hundreds of languages, including the language that we're focusing today: Twi!

Twi is spoken in Ghana, and my expert guest Afua Abrafi has been teaching it for many years. She was born in Ghana herself, and is passionate about helping the African diaspora learn African languages. In today's podcast, Afua shares why she is so passionate about languages, how she became fluent in Dutch in a very short time, and what led her to start teaching the Twi language to people around the world.

Where do you listen?

Thank you to my guest Afua for this episode introduction.

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Special Guest: Afua Abrafi.

Sponsored By:

• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• Twi language, alphabet and pronunciation
• Explore African Language - Clubhouse
• Home - Speak Twi
• Becca - African Woman [Official Video] - YouTube
• Daddy Lumba - Aben Wo Aha (Audio Slide) - YouTube
• Ghana - The World Factbook
• The Ghanaian Language School
• The Fluent Show: Bilingual Podcast! The Biggest African Languages / Les Plus Grandes Langues d'Afrique [with Khady Ndoye]
• twi : Wikitongues.org — Samples of twi recorded by volunteers for Wikitongues

You love languages and you want to spend your whole life around them. Ever thought about teaching?

Teaching languages online is a realistic and interesting career choice. You could start a freelance career or even create your very own business. In today's episode, I'm answering the top five questions about being an online teacher plus some bonus tips you can use too!

I am short of intros! Record your intro using Vocaroo and send me the link. You can speak any language you like. Just say your name, where you're from, which language you're speaking and "you're listening to the Fluent Show"

You can book a whole day with me here: Mobile Mentoring with Kerstin

Don't miss these two Fluent Show episodes:

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Thank you to Bonnie for this episode introduction.

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• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• Teaching and Researching: Motivation: Zoltan Dornyei: 9781317862826: hive.co.uk
• Language Coaches: What They Are and How to Work With Them by Fluent Language
• Book Kerstin Cable: Language Coaching — Yay a day with me!

Many cultural highlights were lost in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. One that's particularly close to our hearts here at the Fluent Show was the Eurovision Song Contest.

One year on, the event is back ON and Lindsay and I meet to bring you a colourful podcast episode celebrating all the magical things about the Eurovision Song Contest.

via GIPHY

1) The history of Eurovision and of singing non-English songs

2) A preview of what's on this year

3) What we love about Eurovision - from a language learner's perspective and a wider perspective

4) Ideas for using Eurovision as a talking point for lessons/exchanges

5) Our Fluent Show Eurovision QUIZ

--> See you at #EuroLangParty on Twitter!

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Sponsored By:

• Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages

Links:

• Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga | Netflix Official Site
• The Fluent Show: Why is it so Hard to Find Pop Music in Other Languages?
• The Fluent Show: Is "Natural Language Learning" even a thing?
• Eurovision Song Contest
• What is the Eurovision Song Contest? - CBBC Newsround
• Eurovision Song Contest - Wikipedia
• Eurovision is letting language learners down by Fluent Language — Kerstin had opinions about Eurovision and languages 8 years ago too
• How English is the Eurovision Song Contest? | Eurovision | The Guardian
• 'Parlez-vous "Eurovision"?': Language and Lyrics at Eurovision 2021
• How it works - Eurovision Song Contest
• 27 MEMORABLE EUROVISION MOMENTS - YouTube
• Verka Serduchka - Ukraine - Helsinki 2007 - Eurovision Song Contest
• Donatan & Cleo - My Słowianie - We Are Slavic (Poland) 2014 LIVE Eurovision Grand Final - Eurovision Song Contest

Holly Jensen has studied Spanish, German, Arabic, French and Russian. She is an online English teacher.

Holly shared in the interview that her superior listening skills have helped her. She can easily copy sounds and learn pronunciation, and she is a teacher appreciated for her fantastic abilities to teach accent in English.

It was difficult at first for Holly to get a job doing the teaching work that she loves, and it is common for blind people to struggle to access employment opportunities worldwide. Finding access to online teaching has helped Holly realise her career goals and work with students around the world.

Holly's students are sometimes nervous about having a blind teacher, but over time most build a good relationship with her and it doesn't stand in their way anymore.

Listen to the interview today to get to know Holly and enjoy her open and positive attitude to life.

Thank you for listening to the Fluent Show! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show by leaving a review in your podcast app or becoming a member of our Patreon community

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Special Guest: Holly Jensen.

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Links:

• Notetakers for Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired - Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
• Foreign Language Braille
• Podcasting 101 — Learn how to start a podcast with me!